The Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) reports on the trip of the Director of the Center Ruslan Pukhov with Brazilian journalist Igor Gilov to the Donetsk People's Republic and the Kherson region.
They visited Donetsk, met with the Head of the Representative Office of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Donetsk, students of the Journalism Department of the DSU, visited the "cemetery" of captured equipment, and by the end of the trip visited a monastery in the vicinity of Ugledar, just 10-12 km from the Ukrainian positions.
We publish interesting moments of the trip in the format of a photo report. There are a lot of photos, so they were divided into events and removed under the spoiler.
Day 1-2. We leave Moscow and arrive in Donetsk. The first meetings.
Let's go. From right to left: Director of the CAST Ruslan Pukhov, Brazilian journalist Igor Gielow, coordinator of the volunteer group "Rear Rats" Pavel Popov, who provided invaluable assistance on the trip
We arrived in Donetsk
Monument to the defenders of Donbass
Meeting with one of the prominent figures of the "Russian Spring" and the winner of the Ogarkov Prize "2022" Alexander Khodakovsky
At a meeting with the head of the Representative Office of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Donetsk, N.S. Mikhailova, with students of the Journalism Department of Donetsk State University, as well as students of the Legatus Youth Diplomacy Center.
Meeting with the head of the Representative Office of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Donetsk, N.S. Mikhailova
Meeting with students of the Journalism Department of Donetsk State University
Meeting with students of the Legatus Youth Diplomacy Center
Day 3. We continue the trip with an inspection of captured equipment at one of the "cemeteries" in the suburbs of Donetsk
Photo of the equipment © Pavel Popov and Igor Gilov
Day 4. Visit to St. Nicholas-Vasilievsky Monastery of the Holy Dormition near Ugledar
We put on bulletproof vests
We are going to Nikolskoye in a loaf
© Pavel Popov
© Pavel Popov
An unexploded shell at the entrance to the temple
© Pavel Popov
We leave the monastery
After visiting the monastery, we drive towards the front, to Ugledar.
There is a coal mine on the horizon. The Ukrainian positions are 10-12 kilometers away
And we publish individual photos that complete the photo essay and the trip
Entrance to Avdiivka. The last stronghold of the Ukrainian resistance in Donbas.
Such mines still lie in huge quantities on the roadsides of the suburbs of Donbass
We are in Crimea. The trip was successfully completed
